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Paul Manafort received $10 million annually as part of a 2006 contract to promote the Putin administration’s interests inside the U.S., Europe, and the former Soviet republics. (Moscow Times)
A Ukrainian lawmaker released new financial documents allegedly showing that Manafort laundered payments from the party of Viktor Yanukovych using offshore accounts in Belize and Kyrgyzstan. (WaPo)
The White House’s former top national security official Michael Flynn did not sign an ethics pledge ostensibly required of all Trump administration appointees barring them from ethically questionable lobbying activities. (The Daily Beast)
U.S. banks should not cut ties with foreign clients over money- laundering worries unless …read more
Source: Kleptocracy Initiative